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A 46-year-old homeless man was arrested Monday evening outside a downtown Athens-police station after an officer found him passed out on a bench with his penis in his hand and a pool of urine on the ground, Athens-Clarke police said.

Danny Lynn Evans, arrested for urinating in public, was also charged with misdemeanor marijuana possession because a small bag of pot was in his pocket, according to police.

After an officer brought Evans to the Clarke County Jail, officials there refused to take him because he sprawled out on the floor and became unresponsive, police said.

Thieves stole construction equipment and air-conditioning compressors altogether worth nearly $22,000 from a work site in the 2600 block of Atlanta Highway between noon Sunday and noon Monday, Athens-Clarke police said.

The five compressors were taken from the roof of a new building that’s going up, and the stolen tools had been stored in an unlocked cooler, according to police.

Athens-Clarke police believe a thief got into a nursing home in north Athens between 8 p.m. Sunday and 8 a.m. Monday by squeezing into an opening of a roof exhaust fan then breaking through ceiling tiles.

The burglar pried open an office safe at Grand View Nursing Home on Winston Drive, but nothing appeared to have been stolen, according to police.

Someone stole a laptop computer, camera and sunglasses altogether worth about $720 from a pickup truck parked at its owner’s home in the 100 block of First Street between 3 a.m. and noon Sunday, Athens-Clarke police said.

The victim said the pickup was locked, but one of the windows can be easily forced down, according to police, who said officers found no evidence of a break-in.

Athens-Clarke police said they might lodge robbery and assault charges against a man who attacked his girlfriend Sunday afternoon during a fight at her home on Oak Hill Drive.

Officers responded to a 3 p.m. report of a domestic dispute in the victim’s home. When they got there, the woman told them that during an argument her boyfriend choked her, ripped off her clothing, then stole $100.

The woman ran from her bedroom to the front door and screamed for help, at which time the suspect left and the victim called 911, according to police.

A 19-year-old Athens resident came home about 4:30 Sunday morning to her Oak Hill Drive apartment to find a man and woman dressed in dark clothing running from the area, according to an Athens-Clarke police report.

The woman found her front door open and saw knife cuts just inside the doorway of her apartment, police said.

She ran back out of the apartment to see the man and woman get into an older model, dark, possibly blue, Honda Accord with a spoiler, according to the report.

A 33-year-old woman called police Saturday to report that an unknown man had come to her trailer the day before saying he needed money to pay his rent and offering to sell her jewelry.

The woman told police she paid the man $125 for a necklace and bracelet that he said was real gold.

As the man was leaving, he tried to snatch a bracelet off her 9-year-old daughter’s hand while she played on the deck, according to the police report, but the woman’s daughter pulled her arm back quickly, and the man was unsuccessful.